Excerpt from Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool, First Lord of the Treasury, &C., &C., &C., On the Licentiousness of the Press, as Destructive of the Monarchy and the Public Morals: And on the Expediency of Changing Certain Laws Which Affect the Beneficed Clergy May prevail, all must be convinced of this, that no Government can suffer its vital and constituent principles to be assailed, and brought into contempt, without exposing itself to imminent danger, or rather certain destruction. It matters not whether the Government be an Aristocracy, a De mocracy, a Monarchy, or a mixture of the three. If the Government be partly monarchical, and the Monarch and his family be frequently treated with insult, by word or deed, and their importance to the country undervalued and misrepre sented, the constitution will, a little sooner or later, be destroyed; and a Democracy or Oligarchy succeed. In like manner, if the Established Religion of the country he not protected by laws strictly executed, and the persons and ecclesiastical property Of its ministers surrounded with a species Of rational sanctity, the Religion Of the State B 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.